The Italian company’s dedication to design over pure functionalism extended beyond just its products into its brilliant graphics. Designed by Ettore Sottsass, Olivetti’s lipstick-red Valentine ...

On view through Oct. 28, 2012, at the Denver Art Museum, “Olivetti: Innovation & Identity,” a small exhibit tied to a larger show about modern design, examines how an Italian company making ...

London’s Design Museum’s director Deyan Sudjic pays tribute to a 1960s machine which paved the way for beautiful, portable products. In their heyday, typewriters were big and bold devices, dominating ...

The design aesthetic of the world’s most wanted laptops and smartphones is generally as slick as the products themselves. Even as the new Apple store design feels like an ostensible attempt to soften ...

At the end of four years of heavy losses, Underwood Corp., once the leader of the U.S. typewriter industry, needed help in a hurry. It came last fall from Italy’s progress-minded Olivetti company, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For most of us, the mechanical staccato of the typewriter has faded into memory. The push of the heavy carriage, the slap of the keys ...

When I was a child I would often fall asleep to the sound of metal typebars hammering on paper. The clack clack clack of words in motion. A cacophony of heavy blows and jabs that ricocheted from wall ...

It's a sign of the times: a company originally known for typewriters, and struggling to find its place in a tech-driven market, turns to manufacturing tablets. This week, Olivetti announced the ...

Writing on a typewriter is a transient thing, like a short-lived but brightly burning and clamorous love affair. Once the thing is written, the paper is removed from the typewriter and the two things ...

A new episode of Mad Men or a rare airing of Murder, She Wrote isn’t the only time to stare longingly at a beautiful, sleek typewriter. There are 28 (sometimes 29) days every year dedicated to the ...